“Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.”
Quoted by Geoffrey Madan (1895-1947)
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Benjamin Jowett10
Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator 1817–1893Related quotes
“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Variant: Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Thomas Charles Lethbridge (1901–1971) British explorer and archaeologist
The Legend of the Sons of God (1972) as quoted by William Shepherd, "The World of T.C.Lethbridge" (July, 2009)
“With just enough of learning to misquote.”
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 66.
Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher
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From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You